Cecil Cousley MBE (February 1932 – 12 October 2020[1]) was a Northern Irish unionist politician who served as Mayor of Ballymoney on three separate occasions, and was a Ballymoney Councillor from 1981 to 2014.
Cousley was a farmer[2] living near Ballymoney, and an elder at Drumreagh Presbyterian Church.
[3] Cousley was elected to Ballymoney Borough Council in 1981 for the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP).
[5] He held his council seat at each election until he retired in 2015, regularly placing top in the poll.
In 2007, several sheep were killed on his land, leading to speculation that the Beast of Ballybogey, a phantom cat, was active; the Police Service of Northern Ireland discounted this theory.